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13/5/2013
The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes.
But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a ...
9/5/2013
As another barge gorged with coal drifted past down the Rhine, France’s lead
climate negotiator Paul Watkinson tweeted: “one day the barges will be filled with wind and sun:-)”.
It was a comment that summed up last week’s meeting of UN ...
8/5/2013
Viet Nam is urgently seeking ways of sustaining its marine economy as
climate change warms and raises sea levels - and, together with massive pollution, continues to destroy the nation's 110,000 hectares of coral reefs.
Ly Son island. ...
1/5/2013
The Internets were abuzz this week with tales of how Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), that notorious Berkeley liberal, introduced a resolution claiming that
climate change forces women to be prostitutes. Another development in the Democrats' ...
30/4/2013
Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, ...
23/4/2013
Climate adaptation planning is likely to become a priority for Bangladesh’s leaders as the hopes of keeping global temperatures within safe limits decrease.
The country is already one of the most vulnerable in the world to flooding and ...
19/4/2013
Little comes easy in this tiny coastal village where kids fill plastic buckets with charcoal to sell at market and women sweep bean pods into tidy mounds alongside pastel-painted mud and concrete houses.
Litane Morece, who makes her ...
18/4/2013
Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy were separated by more than 1,300 miles and eight years, but they share one big thing in common, according to University of Georgia ecologist James Porter: They were exactly the sort of destructive superstorms we will ...
15/4/2013
Of all the uncertainties
climate change presents, its impact on the production and distribution of food is one of the greatest. We are already feeling the effects: 2012 was a bad year for farmers, with droughts and erratic weather decimating ...
13/4/2013
Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the way the world farms.
As food experts gather ...
8/4/2013
West African policy makers should prepare for future challenges from
climate change as they address the pressing needs of broad-based economic growth and tackle hunger issues, the International Food Policy Institute (IFPRI) has ...
7/4/2013
In its glory days during the 1960s, Lake Chad was 38,000 square kilometres of sparkling blue-green water that nourished humans, animals and plant life in the four countries it straddled: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. The lake, on the edge of ...
5/4/2013
Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby undisturbed neighbours, a long-term study by marine biologists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
3/4/2013
The mention of diarrhea is likely to elicit a vague squeamishness in the First World, where indoor toilets and clean water for washing are commonplace, but for thousands of children living in drought-plagued sub-Saharan Africa, the subject is one ...
2/4/2013
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday called for a commitment by the international community to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people living in developing countries.
To reach that goal, ...
1/4/2013
Can you imagine homes and buildings remaining cool with air conditioning, or cars that don’t heat up like ovens in open parking lots? Stanford scholars have just come up with a new form of cooling panel that reflects sunlight back into ...
29/3/2013
Last October, at the beginning of Indonesia's rainy season, a 37-year-old farmer named Herinurdin took a leap of faith. Instead of planting corn in his entire 1.3-hectare rainfed farm in the Sukabumi town of West Java, as his family had done for ...
27/3/2013
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly ...
26/3/2013
In a National Science Foundation funded study, Kathleen Alexander, an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech, found that
climate drives a large part of diarrheal disease and increases the threat of
climate change for vulnerable ...
21/3/2013
Defence establishments around the world increasingly see
climate change as posing potentially serious threats to national and international security, according to a review of high-level statements by the world's governments released here ...
21/3/2013
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be in the middle of a massive typhoon, the first thing you should know is that it depends entirely on where you’re standing.
“It can be terrifying, really,” said James Reynolds, a storm chaser ...
20/3/2013
The recent conflict in northern Mali, where the situation remains volatile, has left many livestock herders in fear of losing millions of cattle, sheep and goats at a time when they were already struggling to find enough pasture for their animals ...
18/3/2013
Climate change and other environmental disasters could put 3.1 billion people into extreme poverty by 2050, if no significant steps are taken, says an annual United Nations report on the state of global development.
“While environmental ...
12/3/2013
Sri Lanka has paused for breath after the extreme weather conditions last year that many associate with
climate change.
The reservoirs had hit new lows after a dry spell. That has now
changed. "Thank god the weather has helped, all the ...
6/3/2013
Just over two years since Egypt's dictator President Hosni Mubarak resigned , little has
changed. Cairo's infamous Tahrir Square has remained a continual site of clashes between demonstrators and security forces, despite a newly elected ...